Albert Einstein
Born March 14, 1879 Died April 18, 1955 is the greatest scientist of the 20th Century.

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."

"As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself."

"Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else"

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. "

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."

"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me."

"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police"

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"Force always attracts men of low morality."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"God does not play dice."

"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business."

"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"Information is not knowledge."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Bruce Lee - Born 1940, Died 1973 is the greatest martial artist of the 20th century.

"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

"The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."

"Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat.Jeet Kune-Do is the only non-classical style of Chinese Kung Fu in existence today. It is simple in its execution, although not so simple to explain. Jeet means 'to stop, to stem, to intercept,' while Kune means 'fist' or 'style,' and Do means 'the way' or 'the ultimate reality.' In other words--'The Way of the Intercepting Fist.'"

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."

"In Jeet Kune-Do, physical conditioning is a must for all martial artists. If you are not physically fit, you have no business doing any hard sparring. To me, the best exercise for this is running. Running is so important that you should keep it up during your lifetime. What time of the day you run is not important as long as you run. In the beginning you should jog easily and then gradually increase the distance and tempo, and finally include sprints to develop your 'wind.'
Let me give you a bit of warning: just because you get very good at your training it should not go to your head that you are an expert. Remember, actual sparring is the ultimate, and the training is, only a means toward this. Besides running, one should also do exercises for the stomach - sit-ups, leg raises, etc. Too often one of those big-belly masters will tell you that his internal power has sunk to his stomach; he's not kidding, it is sunk and gone! To put it bluntly, he is nothing but fat and ugly."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."


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[icHiro] It is totally sad that this man is no longer with us on this earth. The man clearly had the knowledge and skills vastly superior over any martial artists, and philosophers of his time, and beyond.